The Government Speaks with Two Tongues About the Diversity Visa Lottery
By David North on February 22, 2021
The U.S. government had two messages about the Diversity Visa Lottery program on February 18:
Let's expand the program from 55,000 to 80,000 visas a year in the future; and
Let's allow 7,000 currently valid visas in the program to expire next month.
There may be a lawyerly argument that these two statements are not in conflict, but to the layman it looks like a contradiction.
The Diversity Visa Lottery permits literally millions of aliens to file for a chance to secure one of the 55,000 green card visas issued annually through the program. The applicants have to have a high school diploma or its equivalent, and be from a nation that does not already send us many migrants. It is a particularly useless part of the immigration system, and no other nation (other than New Zealand) uses anything like it.
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